Customs and border protection

The movement of eligible travelers and goods should be fast and easy into both the U.S. and Mexico. A smart border channels travelers and goods efficiently and by so doing reduces waits to consistently predictable time frames in minutes, not hours. A smart border proposes to cross-border travelers options to reach their destinations in the shortest period of time. … [Read more...] about Commentary: SANDAG strategy shouldn’t forget border travelers

A Kurdish official, Aldar Xelil, said in a statement Monday that the agreement would put Syrian government forces on two strips along the border, but not in a section where Kurdish fighters are currently battling the Turks. The government forces would defend the border against the Turks, he said, while the Kurdish-led administration would continue to oversee governance and internal security in the region. … [Read more...] about Assad’s Syrian forces move into area hit by Turkey

Erdogan launched the Turkish offensive on Wednesday, after receiving assurances from Trump that U.S. troops, which supported the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia during five years of grinding war to defeat Islamic State, would stand aside. Turkey accuses the YPG of links to a separatist group it has been battling for decades and wants to prevent the rise of a Kurdish proto-state on its border. … [Read more...] about Kurds agree to deal with Assad as Turkish offensive continues

The U.S. has had about 1,000 troops in northeastern Syria allied with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces to combat IS. The Pentagon previously had pulled about 30 of these troops from the Turkish attack zone along the border. With an escalation of violence, a widening of the Turkish incursion and the prospect of a deepening conflict, all U.S. forces along the border will now follow that move. It was unclear where they would go. … [Read more...] about Trump says he plans to issue new sanctions against Turkey